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Description

A full time or contract position at one of the worlds most profitable & prestigious financial institutions (Fortune 50) company.

Unparalleled benefits package includes: 100% upfront tuition (job or non-job related), profit sharing, stock options (20K per new hire - cashless option), mortgage assistance, full health/dental, retirement plan, 401K, tax shelter plans, and so much more... i.e. get an extra day off if you opt to get a physical.

Requirements

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required
  

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• 5+ years’ experience reviewing project architectures and solutions.
• 6+ years’ experience leading application security architecture efforts that requires close collaboration with project teams and business stakeholders.
• Ability to lead Security Architecture consultation with other parts of Information Security, Enterprise/Business/Data Architecture, IT and Business partners, and peers on proper security architecture and software development processes to ensure the applications developed and systems implemented are in line with security best practices and company policies and standards and are compliant with the required frameworks (ISO, SOX, SWIFT, OWASP, NIST Cyber Security, etc.).
• Ability to develop repeatable application security architectures working with internal and external partners. Contribute to the development of architectural reference material to ensure that security practices are being implemented in a repeatable fashion.
• Partner with EA Portfolio and Initiative Architects to assess security threats, identifying and tailoring security requirements, and integrating security controls into the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Ability to document and diagram technical systems and architectures.
• Experience in an environment using agile methodology.
• Demonstrated experience integrating security within the various cloud service models (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). Able to identify the appropriate security solutions for various cloud implementations. Able to architect, implement, and document system security controls.
• Ability to review system documentation for proposed projects (e.g., system requirements, detailed design/architecture, interface documents, etc.), identify security gaps and provide security recommendations to address those gaps, and complete risk profiles for cloud computing solutions.
• Ability to advise and approve of changes and architectures for assigned areas from an application security perspective.
• Ability to perform as a subject matter expert and contribute to the development of company security policy and procedures.
• Ability to lead efforts that document and present risks and security issues that could impact the confidentiality, integrity and/or availability of the business (both internally and externally).
• Ability to assess risk to applications associated with emerging threats and threat vectors.
• Previous industry experience with application security including static code review, automatic code scans, and security architecture review, penetration testing, and mitigating application level vulnerabilities.
• Strong knowledge of networking, Unix/Linux, virtualization, authentication, cryptography. Must be fully conversant up and down the technology stack. Proven expertise in building a defense in depth infrastructure security architecture that includes security controls across the technology stack.
• Must have solid knowledge and understanding of securing all major operating systems.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of major cloud platforms; AWS, Azure, SalesForce, ServiceNow, etc.
• Expert knowledge of operating system, application, network, and database security architectures.
• Development background particularly building enterprise applications (Java Preferably)
• Foundational and functional understanding of how API works (RESTful, SOAP)
• Understanding of API security - specifically on common controls for API security (SSO, OAuth, Threat Protection)
• Security elements of API gateway integrations of API - WAF, Websockets
• Familiarity of Identify and Access Management - AWS IAM integrations
• Proficiency in AppSec and Web services security.
• Ability to facilitate communications to business stakeholders and interact effectively with all levels of management.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and be comfortable with ambiguity.
• Exceptional experience influencing collaborating and negotiating positive outcomes across stakeholders in highly matrixed organization.
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, DoDAF, FEAF etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Applicable security certifications desired; CISSP, CEH, GIAC, GSEC, or CSSLP or advanced degree in InfoSec.
• Prior Financial Services and consulting experience a plus.
  

Description

Requirements

The role of the technical engineer is to develop application design and/or design IT infrastructure components to meet business and technical requirements. IT infrastructure may include systems, middleware, database, storage and/or network infrastructure. The engineer must demonstrate the ability to efficiently code, test & certify technology platforms, software and applications. Troubleshoot, debug application(s) and/or IT infrastructure component(s) and recommend enhancements for stable operations. Maintain and patch systems, software and applications to eliminate bug fixes, security vulnerabilities and maintain technology currency of systems and applications. Document design and engineering standards; develop key performance metrics and operational guidelines for consistent & stable design, build, implement and operational processes.

• Experience in Public Cloud Architectures, Cloud brokering solutions or Cloud Management Solutions for Public Cloud
• Experience with Infrastructure Automation, Infrastructure capacity monitoring and automated scaling solutions
• +2 years Docker and +1 year orchestration (Kubernetes) administration and troubleshooting   
• +2 years AWS experience
• +3 years working in Enterprise DevOps model - Automation of application code deployment (Jenkins, Maven, Git, Nexus etc)   
• Linux Expert level and experience in Scripting Python, Perl, Bash   
• Experience with automation/management frameworks (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, SaltStack)     
• A minimum of 5 years with assessing architecture quality and resiliency viz. scalability, availability, throughput, failover, etc
  

Client: Fortune 100

Industry: Financials

Job Type: Direct Employment / FT

Company offers unparalled benefits, including stock options, profit sharing, mortgage assistance, relocation package, full health/dental/medical, 401K, retirement plan, tax saver accounts, 100% upfront tuition with supplies (not job specific), technology training of the latest and ...., flex time, business casual environment.... etc.

AWS Cloud Architect Role

AWS Cloud Architect to join their elite team of cloud architects & technologists to join Cloud Architecture team to support and enable enterprise wide Cloud Transformation initiative. This individual build and contribute to large-scale, innovative projects.

Required Experience

• BS degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field and 10+ years software architecture, engineering and 4+ years of Cloud Architecture experience
• Demonstrated professional competence in the principles and practices of Cloud architectures
• Subject Matter Expert in AWS Public cloud, including professional experience architecting and operating solutions built on AWS
• Understanding of AWS Cloud technologies at IaaS layer (network, compute, storage) and managed services such as RDS, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, ElastiCache, ElasticBean Stalk, IAM, Cognito and others
• Experience with architecting and designing for Resiliency, High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Scalability in context of AWS Cloud
• Experience with hybrid Cloud environments
• Experience assessing, planning, designing, and migrating/transforming legacy applications to AWS Cloud
• Understanding and experience with cloud native/12-factor application architecture and microservices
• Experience architecting and building microservice applications using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, NodeJS, python/flask/Django
• Experience architecting stateless and stateful applications for containers and container manager/schedulers such as Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS and Docker
• Demonstrated ability to architect and model mission critical solutions leveraging multiple DBMS technologies i.e. Relational, Big Data, NoSQL (K-V stores, document stores, graph and column)
• Experience with event driven and real-time architectures, patterns, messaging and streaming technologies such as using Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Amazon SQS/SNS, Amazon MQ, AWS Managed Services for Kafka etc.
• Working knowledge of Big Data, analytics and machine learning technologies on AWS such as EMR, Apache Spark, SageMaker
• Experience with modern software engineering practices using CI/CD and associated toolsets such as git, AWS Code Commit, Jenkins, Travis, Bamboo, Concourse, Salt, AWS Code Deploy, AWS Code Pipeline, etc.
  

Preferred

• AWS Certifications (Solution Architect)

Other

• Must possess strong organizational skills, strong interpersonal skills, and a team player
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Experience in Financial Services industry
  

Description:

PRIMARY EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

- Physical Data Modeling experience is a must. Past experience on MPP platforms such as Netezza/Redshift/Teradata/Exadata is preferred

- "HANDS-ON" big data experience, particularly with acting as DBA/Engineer on Hadoop Schema-On-Read and RBAC (Hive, Ranger).

- Experience with Javascript and Javascript packages such as D3.

- Experience working with JSON

- Experience working in AWS Cloud environment highly desired (S3, EMR, RDS/PostgreSQL, Redshift, DMS)

- Physical Data Modeling experience is a must. Past experience on MPP platforms such as Netezza/Teradata/Exadata is preferred

- Experience with S3 and file storage designs such as Parquet, Avro, CSV, etc.

Cloud specific skills:

• Experience with Hive, Athena, Redshift (including Spectrum), Amazon RDS, and Glue Metastore
• Experience building cloud infrastructure
• Unix scripting to support operations automation
• Solid knowledge of AWS platforms and services, including but not limited to AMIs, EC2, S2, IAM, AWS CLI. AWS Certifications are a plus.
  

TOP SKILLS Needed:

1. General Data Modeling experience
2. "HANDS-ON" big data experience
3. Strong Communication (written & verbal)
   

Job Responsibilities:

Provide on-site database and system support

Monitor, collect statistical information, and provide reporting on capacity and system performance

Based on statistics, make recommendations to maintain and improve capacity and system performance

Monitor the system, and act upon system and application automated alerts

Perform diagnostics, testing, and troubleshooting of software, o/s, and database issues (ex. correcting installation, configuration, or data problems)

Plan and perform software installation, configuration, upgrade and patching

Plan and perform database configuration, maintenance, upgrade and patching

Perform and manage system and database backups

Perform manual switch to redundant system / database components, in case of system failure

Education/Experience:

Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required

10+ years experience required

Experience in providing technical support, covering database administration and operations to include monitoring maintenance capacity, performance monitoring/planning and incident/problem troubleshooting and resolution

Strong knowledge of SQL

Understanding of Help Desk tools and trouble ticket tracking processes

Understanding of support agreements and their implied service levels

Proven ability to write excellent technical documentation